Getting started with Ruby stack

I'm Beltran from BitNami project. I would like to share a quick guide about how to start with BitNami Ruby stack.

BiNami Ruby stack simplifies the development and deployment of Ruby on Rails and its runtime dependencies on Windows, Linux and OS X. It includes ready-to-run versions of Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Git, RVM, Apache, Nginx and other components. In addition to the base Ruby runtime and libraries, the stack includes most popular gems for building Rails applications: Passenger, Nokogiri, Rake, RMagick, Mongrel, Thin and more.

Each installer includes all of the software necessary to run out of the box (the stack). The process is simple; just download, click next-next-next and you are done! BitNami stacks are completely self contained and will not interfere with other software on your system.

BitNami Ruby stack ships most popular dependencies and servers to deploy any Rails application. Apache and Nginx servers include Passenger (a.k.a mod_rails) module to deploy your application easily. You can find some examples at this guide. It also ships Thin server that you can also configure to deploy your app or you can install easily any other like Unicorn.